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Nov. 12th, 2008 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenFrom The World Without Us by Alan Weisman:
Rain, wind, and snow set to work, with freeze-thaw cycles cracking and splitting the basalt pavement, and moisture seeping into the tuff [a kind of volcanic rock] below. As it eroded, in places the ground collapsed. Left standing were hundred of pale, slender pinnacles, each mushroom-capped with a hood of darker basalt.
Tourism promoters call them fairy towers, a plausible descriptor but not necessarily the first one that comes to mind.
Whatever could he mean? ::grins::
I'm loving this book. After reading![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
linaerys's rave about its language (it's incredibly poetic and beautiful), I couldn't resist. It's more interesting than that documentary show about life after people that I watched because of the use of current-world examples of post-human wastelands. I also like that a lot is left up to the imagination. Fascinating stuff.
Rain, wind, and snow set to work, with freeze-thaw cycles cracking and splitting the basalt pavement, and moisture seeping into the tuff [a kind of volcanic rock] below. As it eroded, in places the ground collapsed. Left standing were hundred of pale, slender pinnacles, each mushroom-capped with a hood of darker basalt.
Tourism promoters call them fairy towers, a plausible descriptor but not necessarily the first one that comes to mind.
Whatever could he mean? ::grins::
I'm loving this book. After reading
linaerys's rave about its language (it's incredibly poetic and beautiful), I couldn't resist. It's more interesting than that documentary show about life after people that I watched because of the use of current-world examples of post-human wastelands. I also like that a lot is left up to the imagination. Fascinating stuff.
